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The Context of Military Environments An Agenda for Basic Research on Social and Organizational Factors Relevant to Small Units (2014) / Chapter Skim
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... Its missions are diverse, following a continuum from peace to war that includes combat and counterinsurgency operations as well as negotiation, reconstruction, and stability operations that require a variety of personnel and skill sets to execute. Missions often demand rapid decision making and coordination with others in novel ways, so that personnel are not simply following a specific set of tactical orders but, rather, carrying out mission command through an understanding of broader strategic goals in order to develop and choose among courses of action.
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... Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) asked the National Research Council to convene an interdisciplinary group of experts "to synthesize and assess basic research opportunities in the behavioral and social sciences related to social and organizational factors that comprise the context of individual and small unit behavior in military environments." The study was to consider "tactical operations of small units and their leaders, to include the full spectrum of unique military environments." Based on a careful review and collation of data from a diverse array of sources, the committee arrived at three key points.
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... military funding agencies to fund basic research that addresses questions related to norms, environmental transitions, contextual leadership, power and status hierarchies, and multiteam systems. Each area is presented in a separate chapter in this report as follows: • How to understand the content, emergence, influence, and malle ability of social norms (Chapter 2)
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... when considering appropriate funding levels for ARI basic research over the next 10 or more years. If limitations on funding necessitate ARI having to choose between breadth and depth (i.e., small allocations of funding across all of the initiatives featured in the recommended research agenda versus larger funding allocations within a portion of the recommended initiatives)
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